Mizuho mayhem

These are a little hard to see, but the Web site TripleWitchingFriday has photos it claims show the melee that ensued on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as news of the Mizuho trading scandal broke a few weeks ago. The current estimate for settling the trading error is estimated at $335 million.

The site claims they’re authentic, taken with a cell phone camera by a foreign exchange arbitrage trader on the floor that day. Still, the last image of the guy holding the woman over his head, presumably to toss her across the room, looks a little Photoshopped.

The trading error occurred after a Mizuho trader apparently offered 610,000 shares of a company called J-Com at ¥1 each, instead of the intended one share at ¥610,000. Oops.

Well, folks, Eddie raises a good point. I had not been to the TripleWitching web site before, and when I linked to that site from my RSS reader, I was only looking at the portion of the site I talked about in my post. If you have lots of extra time on your hands, as Eddie obviously does, you can find some parts of the site that are inappropriate — and labeled as such. So if you looked beyond the portion of the site I linked to and found yourself offended, I apologize. Thanks again, Eddie, for taking such a deep and profound interest in my work, and for spending all the hours you obviously devote to reading and analyzing this blog.

Bah, Humbug! The holidays are here and you have nothing betterto do??? It’s obvious that you’re looking to cause trouble to Loren.Triple Witching Friday is a business lifestyle site for executives.Yes, some of the content is risque, but it’s R-rated and it’s properly marked.

I agree with you, Loren. If we had to worry that a link off an interesting webpage might be lead to something offensive all this blogging stuff would just shut down. Like 99% of the readers here I went to that page and that was pretty much it.